Белорусская компания Anitaby предлагает автобусные туры в Россию за светодиодными картами, которые загораются при оплате. Участникам поездки предлагают насыщенную культурную программу в Смоленске или Москве, в рамках которой можно встретиться с представителем Т-Банка в отеле, который и отдаст карточку. Выглядит как первый случай разворота туристического потока за финпродуктами. @banksta
Белорусская компания Anitaby предлагает автобусные туры в Россию за светодиодными картами, которые загораются при оплате. Участникам поездки предлагают насыщенную культурную программу в Смоленске или Москве, в рамках которой можно встретиться с представителем Т-Банка в отеле, который и отдаст карточку. Выглядит как первый случай разворота туристического потока за финпродуктами. @banksta
Telegram boasts 500 million users, who share information individually and in groups in relative security. But Telegram's use as a one-way broadcast channel — which followers can join but not reply to — means content from inauthentic accounts can easily reach large, captive and eager audiences. Telegram was founded in 2013 by two Russian brothers, Nikolai and Pavel Durov. The War on Fakes channel has repeatedly attempted to push conspiracies that footage from Ukraine is somehow being falsified. One post on the channel from February 24 claimed without evidence that a widely viewed photo of a Ukrainian woman injured in an airstrike in the city of Chuhuiv was doctored and that the woman was seen in a different photo days later without injuries. The post, which has over 600,000 views, also baselessly claimed that the woman's blood was actually makeup or grape juice. Asked about its stance on disinformation, Telegram spokesperson Remi Vaughn told AFP: "As noted by our CEO, the sheer volume of information being shared on channels makes it extremely difficult to verify, so it's important that users double-check what they read." Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores.
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